Improvement in ironing-boards



lend of the latter.

UNITED STATES JOHN WATSON, OF WILLIAMSPORT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO PATENT OEEIcEC WILLIAM T. WAPLES, OF PHILADELPHIA7 PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,069, dated September 21, 1875 application led December 3, 1874.

A folding support ofthe construction illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved ironing-table; and Fig. 2 a plan view.

The base of the table consists of an H- shaped frame, B, to one of the end pieces of which is hinged a frame, C, jointed at its upper end to the under side of an ordinary ironing-board, A, a short distance from the widest A bar, D, jointed at the upper end to the frame C, has abeveled lower end, which enters a notch in the cross-bar of the frame B, and a forked or V-shape brace,

` E, having an opening in the upper end to receive a stud projecting from the lower side of the ironing-board, and is jointed to the base B near the lower end of the frame C. The

bar D braces the frame G in one direction, and its movement in the opposite direction is resisted by the brace E, which prevents any rearward motion of the ironing-board; the

two braces D and crossing each other nearly at right angles, and each having apositive bearing upon the base, so that much greater. rigidity and stability are secured than can be attained by the ordinary supports, in which one brace bears upon the other. As the brace E is forked and has a bearing near both edges of the base any lateral motion vof the ironingboard is ei'ectually prevented.

When the table is to be packed for transportation or storage the brace E is turned downward upon the base and the brace C turned outward until the ironing-board rests upon the base.

I do not claim, broadly, a tailors ironingboard combined with a base and with folding supports; but

I claim- The combination of the base B, ironingboard A, frame O hinged to both ironingboard and base, and the braces D and E, the former being hinged at the top to the frame C, and the latter being forked, jointed at its lower end to the base, crossing the brace D at right angles, and having at its upper end a recess for receiving a stud upon the ironingboard, all 'as set forth.

JOHN WATSON.

Witnesses: HEPBURN MGOLUEE, SAMUEL G. MORRISON. 

